Revolutionary Girl Utena, Vol. 2: To Plant

A badly written and modified retread of the anime plot. Characterization has been chopped up, plots are lessened by the weird increase in sexism (and this is considering it erased the plot where Anthy's dress was supposed to dissolve, as a cruel jealous bit of bullying). Utena is far more of a damsel than she was in the anime. The moments between Anthy and Utena are probably the best, at least when Utena isn't victim-blaming Anthy, but that's kind of it.

The art at least gets somewhat better than in volume 1, and the plot is slightly more interesting, anyway, for all it's still compressed, cut, with more throwaway non-con and bad writing. But it's still not as good as the anime and the film.

I found this a pretty refreshing manga series.